Nothing. Here’s a helpful link for you to learn basic conversational skills: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=conversational+tangent

And my mother said if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. Communicating ethically is more important than communicating at all.

Communicating clearly is also important. But communicating ethically is more important. Like most people, I’d rather be called a nice word I don’t know than a homophobic slur I understand perfectly well. Wouldn’t you?

I think we all have a duty to communicate ethically moreso than to communicate clearly. People are used to hearing the partial version of NPD because of cultural stigma. We know more than them, and that means we have a duty to educate them.

NPD. Go read psychology textbooks until you’ve got a basic grasp of mental health verbiage.

I think it’s kinda weird that you used the whole initialism for only one of those disorders. You could have used it for both or neither, but you didn’t.

Spears are sharp.

Pelican.

Of course people can be tricked, and that’s why I don’t trust Shinigami Eyes. If a critical mass of people are tricked, then Shinigami Eyes helps with tricking everyone else.

a whisper network is most commonly when (usually) women inform each other about men who are sexual predators, (usually) in workplaces.

Oh, that makes sense then. I’ve only ever heard the term within the trans community, and most of the trans people I know (myself included) are t4t and gay. I don’t know what the cishet people are up to. In the trans community, whisper networks are for well-connected abusers to DARVO their less popular victims. The victim has no opportunity to respond to the accusations and may not even know about them until all their friends have cut contact.

And that’s one of the issues cited by Norway’s data protection authority with Shinigami Eyes:

It is Datatilsynet’s view that to be marked through Shinigami Eyes may entail negative consequences for the data subject, regardless of whether they are marked as being pro- or anti-trans. Being marked as anti-trans could cause one to lose their job, or friendships, and the individual could be the target of hate and mistreatment. Being pro-trans could, in certain communities (for example religious or very conservative communities), be construed as negative as well, similar reactions as described above could be imposed on the data subject. The negative impact must be viewed as particularly intensive, in light of the individualised nature of the marking, in addition to the data subject not having information about the marking nor understanding why they received such a marking. It is therefore also in particular difficult for the data subject to present an opposing view. This could also entail fear, irritation and other broader emotional impacts, which, according to the WP29, must be taken into account in this balancing act.

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In addition, it must be taken into account that since the processing is occurring without the appropriate information being provided to the data subjects, the data subject is prevented from exercising their right to object in accordance with GDPR Article 21. The lack of adequate information being provided to the data subject will be further examined below in its own section.

Personally, I agree with this legal decision. The final verdict from the data protection authority is that the legitimate interest of trans people to be warned of transphobia by an app, which is easier than using their own judgement, does not outweigh subjects’ right to safety from profiling and their right to object. Who decides whether a user’s submission is added to the bloom filter? A machine learning heuristic and an unknown, unidentified group of people who the Norwegian government was unable to track down. There is no accountability.

I have only ever heard the term “whisper network” said in the context of bullying, typically of trans women. I just googled it, and apparently some people see whisper networks as positive? I’m stunned, it’s like hearing someone say conspiracies are a useful tool for abuse victims.

Personally, I believe in open discussion in which both sides are considered impartially by bystanders. This still has the flaw of favouring stronger rhetoricians, but at least it doesn’t privilege people with social connections over people who are isolated. Which is what whisper networks do. And is why pedophiles love to work as priests and other community pillars.

I think learning critical thinking skills is a much better way to judge content than The Groupthink Machine.

Shinigami Eyes is weird, because in Death Note, the Shinigami Eyes are a magical bargain in which you give up half of your remaining lifespan to be able to see people’s deadnames. The manga is explicit about the fact that the Death Note only accepts names assigned at birth. Light wants to use the Death Note to kill L, but he doesn’t know L’s deadname, only his identified name, so he can’t. So Ryuk offers to make a deal and give him deadname vision.

Also I think intra-community harassment and lateral violence are serious enough issues that crowdsourced shunning is a horribly destructive technology with the potential to ruin lives. Take for example the case of Isabel Fall. She wrote a short story about the US military manipulating people’s genders through brainwashing to turn them into living weapons. Because of its provocative title, a lot of people assumed she was mocking trans people and harassed her. Turns out, she was a newly out trans woman publishing queer science fiction as her first experiment into living publicly as herself. It went horribly, she decided to detransition over the harassment. She decided that the world has spoken; she’s not allowed to be a woman.

Shinigami Eyes seems to me like a recipe for replicating that situation a hundred times over. People are bad at telling whether other people are transphobes, and I don’t trust them to do it right.

I’m actually 8 and I already have two PhDs. I also beat Shaq in a game of half court and I helped invent the Pfizer COVID vaccine.

Well obviously we organise into armed militias and overthrow the government in a communist revolution first.

What are you doing on slrpnk.net?

First off, the Netherlands brought back their trams, and it’s awesome. Trams are the most accessible form of transportation for people with mobility or financial issues, and they contribute very positively to the local economy by increasing foot traffic around local businesses. And as I said, they’re cheaper to run and maintain than buses.

Second, a 70% traffic reduction in cities would be around a 50% reduction in car usage overall, which was the thing you started this argument by complaining about. My radicalism caused you to push for a compromise that you previously considered too extreme. Get got. Being radical works.

No, fascism is an ideology based in the myth of palingenetic ultranationalism, characterised by 14 traits including such concepts as “machismo”, “the cult of action”, and “the enemy is strong and weak”.

Forming a vigilante mob to smash rich people’s stuff is perfectly compatible with anarchism. Voting to ban the sale of cars at the federal level is a more moderate option palatable to capitalist liberals, and also not fascism.

Aren’t you the one who’s okay with audio mixing you need subtitles to understand?

Trams would have a lower maintenance cost and higher volumes than buses. Buses are ideal for temporary routes and little else. If the provincial government ran trams instead of buses, they could afford to maintain more routes at the same annual cost, provided a little extra initial money. Then it wouldn’t be so impossible to have a tram route serving you.

What you’re seeing isn’t a physical law. It’s an engineering problem.

The problem with my audio setup is in my temporal lobe. I have autism.